MSU News -Bulletin Vol. 3, No.6 MichiJ!;an State University Oct. 28, 1971 EFC to get • grlevance document The proposed interim faculty grievance procedures will go before the Elected Faculty Council Tuesday (Nov. 2) at 2 p.m. in the Con Con Room of the Center for International Programs. The grievance procedures were to have been distributed to all Academic Council members with the agendas for both the Elected Faculty Council (EFC) and the Academic Council meetings. The Academic Council will convene following the EFC meeting, at 3: 15 p.m. in the same room. The procedures were developed by the Ad Hoc Committee to Study 'Faculty Rights, Responsibilities and Grievance Procedures, chaired by E .. Fred Carlisle, associate chairman of English. The latest revised version is dated Oct. 25, 1971. There have been five substantive the proposed grievance changes in procedures since they were reprinted in the State News earlier this term. Included in those revisions is clarification that the procedures shall not pre-empt the functions of the University Faculty Tenure Committee, and pr(>Visionsthat fees and expenses of a third member (from outside the University) of an appeals board shall be paid by the University. A third revision outlines the route of the procedures though academic governance channels: From the faculty affairs and faculty compensation committee (which has already endorsed the proposal), to the Elected Faculty Council with the recommendation that it the be approved and forwarded Academic Council, to the president and to the Board of Trustees. to Carlisle told the Steering Committee of the F acuIty Monday that he expected the main objection to the proposal to be philosophical, based on the fact that the procedures would not bind the president to any decision. Carlisle said that this is consistent with the existing adviSOry function of academic governance. And lie said he thinks the proposed procedures will resolve grievances which faculty previously had no way of resolving. Musical opens a big month A cast of 12-ranging in zge from 11 to 21-will perform "The Me Nobody Knows" when the rock musical is presented at 8: 15 p.m. next Monday (Nov. 1) in the Auditorium.Th~ production, winner of the 1970 Obie Award for Best Musical, kicks off a November rllledwith cultural events. Next upinthe Lecture-Concert Series is Tuesday's (Nov. 2) appearance by Gerson Kingsley's First Moog Quartet at 8:15 p.m: iIi the Auditorium. The program features four Moog synthesizers, backed by live instruments and voices. A capsule calendar of major November musical, dramatic and ffimed programs is on page 6 of today 's News-Bulletin. City housing recommendations being .readied for Council Recommendations from "East Lansing's Joint Housing Committee"are now being drawn into ordinance foon by the city attorney, according to Mayor Gordon Thomas, also professor of communication. When the East Lansing City Council considers the ordinances, members of the public will be allowed to speak to them, Thomas said. The recommendations fonow a nine-month study by the Joint Housing Committee, composed of members of East Lansing's Human Relations Commis-sion and its Planning Commission, and representatives from MSU's Off.{:ampus Housing office and tl1e student Off.{:ampus Council. The committee's goal was to "examine and recommend actions to the various agencies of the City with respect to problems in the housing area;" through analysis of the physical, social and economic housing problems. East Lansing housing problems required special study, the committee reported, because of certain unique characteristics of the city, including its large percentage of young adult residents, large proportion of rooming and apartment houses, and the fluctWlting population base which causes "difficulty in achieving \ balanced growth and development" in housing. The committee studied the history of housing (pointing out that the city's population - and therefore housing problems - grew as MSU grew); the supply of existing housing (noting that the median value of owner-occupied housing in 1970 was $29,300, and citing the growth of multiple - family units); and the existing market for housing. The housing market looks, in part, like this: The majority of the East Lansing labor . force is composed of MSU students, faculty and staff, plus retail and profE'~sional people_ Of a total of16,393 housing units in the city, about 75 percent are rental units. In 1970 about two-thirds ofthe 51,000 East Lansing residents were students, 40 percent of whom lived off-campus, mostly in ,rental multiple-family structures. The majority of the nonstudent (60 percent) population live in one or two family units, and the majority of these are MSU faculty and staff, professional personnel, state officials, retail and . industrial management personnel. About 40 percent of MSU employes the housing in ,.East Lansing, live (<;:ontinued on page 5) (Continued on page 5) Bene.fits open enrollment continues The annual open enrollment for insurance continues until Nov. 5. Brochures describing the programs went to faculty and staff earlier this week. Representatives of the Staff Benefits Division will be available at the following locations from 3 to 4: 30 p.m. to assist persons wishing to enroll: Thursday (Oct. 28)-Room 111, Brody Building; Friday (Oct. 29)-Lunchroom, Physical Plant Building; Monday (Nov. l)-Captain's Room (second floor), Union Building; Tuesday (Nov. 2)-Room E-2 (East Lounge), Owen Graduate Center. The Staff Benefits Division will be open daily through Nov. 5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (inCluding the lunch hour) to answer questions and assist persons during the open enrollment. Staff benefits is located in 344 Hannah Administration Building, phone 353-4434. • -mo ~?" :>-~ .""~ ?"O'"'' ~ - ~.-., 11\13"'" lOlJl"3 N3dO OPEN EI'IROl lMEl'rr .., .... Zn~ ~~ .... , w\..., .. -"C n'<- \... "",-. Page 2, MSU News-Bulletin, Oct. 28, 1971 Faculty salary secrecy helps to breed mistrust To the Editor: last the In issue of the MSU News-Bulletin, (Oct. 21), there was: a news item in which several administrators speculated on the historical origin of salary secrecy; a statement by Prof. Thomas Moore, who argued for confidentiality to ensure his privacy; and another statement by Prof. Frank Blatt, principally taking umbrage with Trustee Clair White. Each of these items, however, has little to do with the central issue raised by salary secrecy. The question that needs to be answered is whether the availability of salary information would contribute to the general welfare of the faculty, and as a consequence to the welfare of the University. information would be In a more perfect world of decision - making, the need for the availability of salary less demanding. Decisions on salary increases would be made by our peers instead of by administrators, and our peers could be informed, objective and judicious. Financial res"Ources also would be adequate for each Department to reward and improve its faculty. But this kind of a world is about as foreign to Michigan State as perfect competition in the marketplace. In practice, most departmental advisory committees do not have information on salary levels, so must recommend SAM, Chest issue cleared To the Editor: Interest in the issue of gun control legislation and the Community Chest prompts this letter. In the last several days the following developments have occurred. *The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD), having earlier suspended its policy on gun control legislation and recognizing, the need for additional information on the relationship between guns and crime, announced that it will intensify its efforts to develop new knowledge by stimulating, sponsoring and cooperating in research in this field. *The Sportsmen's Alliance of Michigan has withdrawn its opposition to Community Chest drives throughout the state and is now urging all members to contribute. *The announcement by NCCD has resolved the concern of the United Community Chest oflngham County and dollars will be forthcoming from this year's campaign to support the council and its Michigan chapter. Many people, with widely divergent views, have voiced their dissatisfaction with aspects of this episode. However, we believe these expressions can and should be made in ways which will not result in a reduction of services by Chest agencies to the people of our community. In our judgment the simplest way of insuring this is by contributing to the Chest drive and by formally communicating felt concerns to those responsible for policy decisions on this matter - the members of the board of the United Community Chest. Thomas Dutch, Russell Hill, Louis Ross, Kenneth Schram, Kermit Smith, John Howell, (chairman) University Community Chest Committee increments to unknown bases. In practice, also, administrators either determine merit increases unilaterally or adjust faculty recommendations. And perhaps most important, resources chronically are severely limited. Most of the post - World War II period has been characterized by steeply rising emollments, limited increases in budget appropriations, and a tight labor market for academicians. Under these conditions, it is only to be expected that unjustified salary discrepancies would develop in ce.rtain cases between new and existing faculty. New faculty had the bargaining power of a hot market; existing faculty were residual claimants. Remember the parable of the vineyard? Enter at this point the element of gamesmanship. The more entrepreneurial there was one faculty realized that invariably successful way to beat the financial crunch - the alternative offer. Some of these offers, of course, were legitimate, but many werecontrived. As a mOre jaundiced member of the Department of Economics expresses the strategy: Unless one's ass is in the market it can't be pinched. It simply became good business to advertise one's availability at regular intervals. To these developments may be added any number of other possible unneutralities. Women faculty in general were discriminated against. Some good teachers suffered from publish or perish; some good researchers suffered if they were not ideologically pure; and some just suffered if they were unorthodox - if they resisted conventional departmental practices. Under all of ,these circumstances, is there any wonder that the administration (not the Board of Trustees) preferred to hide the salary schedules? Bringing everything out in the open would mean that administrators would be harassed for explanations and adjustments. At the same time, though, a disclosure of salary information would create individual and collective pressures the inequities. to remove All of this demonstrates a principle that everyone should already know. One of the comparative advantages of the public sector (and Michigan State, incidentally, is part of the public sector), is that its activities are carried out in a goldfish bowl. While inefficiencies are hidden in the private sector, they are exposed in the public sector. Thus, salary secrecy is not only an indignity, and breeds distrust, but it is also inefficient. Your privacy, then, Professor Moore, is being provided at a rather high social cost. There is frequently :.1 difference, you may recall, between the private and the social good. Milton Taylor Professor of economics Pay list reveals urgent need to reform distribution system Tothe Editor: Although most of us can undoubtedly pre sen t well-re asone d statements supporting or opposing disclosure of ~alary information, our arguments have been rendered otiose this year by the availability of the faculty pay list at the library. Apparently any interested party may investigate its contents without even being asked to supply a signature. One who takes the trouble to examine this document will not have to dig very to unearth evidence showing far discrimination against individuals according to departme'nt, sex, and race (including Caucasian). Whether or not such evidence should be kept confidential in order to spare embarrassment to those at the bottom of the salary scale, or subject those at the the fear. of some costly top to equalization process seems beside the point at this juncture. What does seem pertinent is that the University's arrangement for distributing salary money, dependen t as it is on the vagaries of human nature, liaS not been entirely successful, for it has nourished a situation whereby a Ie ss-than-outstanding faculty member can be - and sometimes is -- rewarded at the expense of a superior colleague. The need for reform is urgent, but reasonable alternative policies will probably not be initiated until the faculty is willing to organize, and exert at least a measure of control over its own destiny. Collective bargaining may be no panacea, but it falls far less short of perfection than the present system. Theodore Johnson Associate professor of music Small ,colleges praised and criticized The seeds of decay may already be evident in many of the new small colleges created Oil American campuses in recent years, says an MSU educational researcher. In the preface to his new book, Paul L. Dressel critically reviews the records of cluster, inner, residential and new college experiments. "Generally," he says, "I have been disheartened by the gap between the ideals as originally planned, or as later portrayed in literature and speeches, and the reality. "New colleges, started 'as experiments by universities to explore the costs and benefits of alternative forms of undergraduate education, have not only failed to meet this obligation, but have actually rejected it." Dressel's comments are in "The New Colleges: Toward an Appraisal," published by the American College the American T e sting Program and Association for Higher Education. Dressel is a past president of the latter group, and at MSU he is assistant provost and director of institutional research. CONTRIBUTORS TO the volume, including deans and presidents of eight new colleges, are far less critical then Dressel. According to D. Gordon Rohman, dean of Justin Morrill College, "It is much too early in the game to look for results in terms of either tested or even testable models." Rohman says he is "more impressed by the questions they have raised ... than by the answers they have given." While recognizing that evaluation must take place, Rohman argues for new approaches and new measures for these experiments in education. "It would be very much to the point to evaluate what such colleges have 'unlearned' and Why." * * * AM ONG OTHER contributors are Herbert Garfinkel, former dean ofJames Madison College, and Larry H. Litten of the National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago. In a chapter entitled, "We Know that You're Out There, But What Are You Doing? ," Litten reviews the report from each of the eight small colleges and says they reveal "very little about what these colleges are trying to do and almost nothing about what effects they are having." Their common fault, Litten says, stems from the intimate connection of the contributors to the new colleges being evaluated. "Even intelligent men can interests and develop biases, vested distorted perceptions," he says. Covered in the monograph, in addition to Morrill and Madison Colleges, are: Johnston College, University of Fairhaven at Western Redlands; Washington State College; University of Michigan's residential college; Callison College, University of the Pacific; New College, Sarasota, Fla.; and University of California, Santa Cruz. THE EDITOR OF the volume, Dressel, argues that the seeds of decay in the new colleges are evidenced by: Difficulty in attracting students, flexibility turned to rigidity, student disenchantment with the residential aspect; faculty turnover and faculty retreat to more traditional programs. Dressel candidly admits that colleagues, friends and contributors to the work may regard his views as "ungrateful and malicious," but he says his intent in promoting the book was to focus on the need for evaluation of the new colleges. Taking exception to this view in a is Warren Bryan summation chapter Martin, coordinator of development for the center for research and Development in 1Iigher Education at Berkeley, who evaluates the evaluators. "Programs struggling to achieve a future orientation should not be judged by persons whose methodology requires concentration on a present measured by norms from the past," he says. "A moratorium ought to be declared on appraisals of new colleges," he says. Martin contends, "New colleges are fragile flowers trying to grow in hard and barren soil and, therefore, they deserve tender care and vigilant protection. Pulling them up periodically by the roots, arbitrarily and with external force, rather than letting them develop organically, is a the future of higher crime against education." -GAIL MORRIS Science notes: Page 3, MSU News-Bulletin, Oct. 28,1971 Huggins says 'the pill' can prevent cancer .~ ," ',"'" 1'1 I . .i '".-. :Z~ . .. P:,tcg .. , ?~~*:~';n.',; " ptd A Nobel Prize winner who visited MSU earlier this ~onth p~ovided campus scientists with a good deal of mformatlOn on his research and at the same time a~vanced a provocative opinion: The birth con'trol pIll has not caused human cancer; on the contrary, it has prevented it. C~rles B. Huggins of the University of Chicago, a co-wmner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for work in physiology or medicine, said he thinks that birth control pills prevent breast cancer. "So, whereas people took it (the pill) to prevent they have also prevented cancer" conception, Huggins said. He. addressed students and faculty her~, an~ conferred wIth MSU scientists Joseph Meites and ClIfford W. Welsch. "I believe with Professor Meites and Professor Welsch that steroid hormones and related hormones are at the center of the cancer problem: The cancer problem of plants and animals." Normally, Huggins said, one of every 18 women will be expected to develop breast cancer during her expected 72 years of life. * * * WHAT DO MSU scientists remarks about the pill? think of Huggins' "The thing that concerns me," said Welsch, an associate professor of anatomy, "is the long-term influence of birth control pill. What will be the breast cancer incidence in 20 to 30 years?" Meites, professor of physiology, agrees that it is too early to tell about the effects of the pill. "Wh~t Huggins said is absolutely right as far asjt goes,'.' Meit~s said. "T~e longest .experience, as he mentIoned, IS 12 years m Puerto Rico, because that is w~ere they sta:ted giving the pills. There is no e~Idence of anf, mcrease in breast cancer or any other kind of cancer. Meites add~: '.'But the only way one will know for sure about this IS over a long penod of time. It may take at l~ast 20 or even 30 years because breast cancer ,like most cancers, is a disease of old age. H~ ~~d th~t may ~ot appear until 30 years after the mitial stImulus. On the other hand, so far at le~st, there just isn't .any evide~~e that it (the pill) nught. produce ca~cer m hu~ans. Meites emphasIZed that If anybody in this world knows anything, about cancer," Huggins is the man. "He has worked with human patients all his life," Meites said, "and he started out as a surgeon, a great surgeon . . . I don't know anyone who has more su~cessfully applied the basic findings in laboratory arumals to human subjects." Nobel Laureate Huggins pointed out that estrogens (female sex hormones) have already been used by the caroload; and there has been no epidemic of breast cancer in the women who have taken them." Huggins expresses hope for the conquest of cancer. "I think what we'll see in the future," he said, "at a certain moment in life, is that the people, instead of taking just a vitamin in the morning, will take one vitamin pill and one hormone pill. And that will abolish cancer. This is the great hope." . -PHILLIP E. MILLER Huggins: Preventing conception and cancer. Photo by Robert Brown -Commission studies governance Ombudsman James Rust and eight other academicians addressed the Carnegia Commission on Higher Education last week on campus governance models. The two-day conference at the University of California at Berkeley also included discussion on what model, if any, would be better than the current model of governance. The nine persons attending the conference included five current ombudsmen from the University of California at Irvine, San Diego State UniversitY,UCLA, KentStti,fe University an d M S U ; t hr ee othe~s have just completed terms of offic.e·as·ombudsmen at Berkeley, Cornell and San Jose State. The ninth man was Ray Rowland, director of information services at St. in Minnesota; Cloud State College Rowland did his Ph.D. dissertation at MSU on the ombudsman role. * * * The current campus governance model was compared by the UCLA ombudsmen to a feudal system, with department chairman compared to petty dukes with their own fiefdoms, department members as "men-at-arms," and students as serfs. Rust said there was a good deal of tf\!th in the analogy, since universities did originate in the Middle Ages, but he thought the analogy was carried too far. Two alternative models which were discussed were: * One which may be coming out in pressure groups ofthe campus: Students, facuIty, administrators, employes and the public. The question, Rust said, is what kind of organization would this be? It was compared tn the United :Nations. * A municipal or city council model. At UCLA, a ur.iversity policy commitie::, has Decn established representing (rl:':ee each) students, il,'rninisLJ""tors and employes. faculty, This advis Y COITii;'ittce spent last year investigati,p.e,icent of the highest salary ., the Ulllversity. A quarter-time at assistantship i~ $1 ,600, he said, before taxes, and fees to the Universi ty are more than that. " I" . Pre-game warmups ... . . . become more strenuous for Spartan Stadiwn gioundskeepers when it rains. Before the more than 60,000 Homecoming spectators could set themselves in the rain to watch MSU and Iowa play in the rain last Saturday, the Tartan Turf had to be swept of excess water (top) . .. the tarp had to be removed (bottom) ... among dozens of pre - and post - game tasks. The score: Spartans 34, Fumbles 15, Iowa 3. -Photos by William Mitcham ' ; ,! ' . _' , , -- Nothing is being done on the question of unionization, Greene said, though a survey a year ago showed 60 percent of the respondents in favor of collective bargaining for graduate students. If the faculty unionize, Greene said, it would be "mandatory for students to unionize to protect their interests." FREE PARKING ASKED. Faculty at the University of New Mexico have adopted a resolution opposing a proposal that faculty and staff begin paying for parking. Annual rates in the proposed plan would be $48 for faculty . In objecting to the paid parking plan, the New Mexico faculty compensation committee said, "We do not believe that faculty and staff should serve as a tax base. for their employer, the university." ~ .~ "', * * * U-M TO OPEN CLUB. The dining room of the Michigan Union at the University of Michigan is scheduled to be-closed on Nov. 24 and reopen on Nov. 30 as the University Club of Ann Arbor. The club, which has dining and bar facilities, is open to faculty, staff, student'$;:llI1d alumni. The dues schedule is a graduated one, ranging from $10 a year (or students to $40 for full professors, local alumni and staff members whose salaries exceed $14,000. . * * * EARLY RETIREMENT? The Board of Regents at the University of Minnesota is considering adoption of an early rtltirement plan on a fIve-year trial basis. It would allow retirement at age 62 with the same payments an individual would have received if he retired at 65. * * * NONRESIDENT DEGREE PLANNED. Cornell University is planning to offer a new program for "academically qualified residents who are not of normal college age or status." T~e participants. would enroll as part-time students in the College of Arts and Sciences. Faculty in the college passed a new regulation waiving, "in the case of adult area residents only," the requirement that degree candidates must have at least two years' residence as full- time students in the college. * * * U-GRAD STUDY AT WISCONSIN. A l6-member faculty-student Committee on Undergraduate Education has been appointed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Chancellor Edwin Young said the committeE( would consider a number of innovations, such as "the place of extramural credit work in the teaching program, opportunities for easier leaves of absence for students, feasibility and appropriateness of a reduction in the current four-year program for a bachelor' s degree ... " * * * CATCIllNG DOGS. Four part-time dog catchers are now patrolling the campus of the State University of New York at Buffalo. According to . the director of environmental health and safety at SUNY/Buffalo, an increasing dog population is posing serious health and safety problems on the cafl1.pus. There have been recorded cases of unprovoked dog attacks on students, faculty and staff members. * * * OMBUDSMAN AT U-M. The regents at the University of Michigan have .approved in principle the creation of the post of ombudsman for U-M students. Actual _c:r.eJl.tion qr. pqsitiQt1i tS{\,!llsettled "until ,Sllch time: as-fundingCiS",possible." E.L. housing recommendations . · · Page 5, MSU News-Bulletin, Oct. 28, 1971 (Concluded from page 1) committee reported. Although the University employs fewer .faculty than staff, a higher proportion offaculty than staff live in East Lansing. And as the rank of the fa~ulty inC)."eases, the proportion within East Lansfng incf'eases.' The committee further found that faculty and staff residences are widely dispersed throughout the community; that groupings of MSU employes with similar salary ranges occur, in neighborhoods; that there is ,a correlation between income levels aild value of housing; and that faculty 'and a staff in higher income ranges tend not to live in areas of major rooming-house (and thus student) concentrations. ,- Since 60 percent of MSU faculty and staff and 85 percent of East Lansing City employes live outside the city, the committee suggested a possible gap exists between the supply of housing at variQus cost levels and the demand for, such housing. * * * BASED UPON THESE studies of the history, supply and market (more detail is provided in the ·report which is available for free study in, the city and MSU libraries or fJ'6n:O he ,city clerk for $2.), the co~d~e 'rha~" ~he f()llowing recommendations: That tlte East Lansing City Council : 1 - Establish a City Housing Commission to continually review situation and. to make the housing recommendations to the City Council. The review would .include investigating possibilities for low-cost rental housing programs; private-sector incentives for such construction; overseeing application of existing housing ordinances; studying neighborhood preservation and making recommendations on housing and building codes; and the encouraging construction of housing types. The commission would include representatives from MSU, city government, rental property owners, tenants, homeowners and the elderly. 2 - Establish licensing procedures for all rental property to ~egulate density of I ,' use based on interior and exterior standards. Control of licenses and enforcement of standards would be the responsibility of an individual who would work in liaison with the Housing Conunission. 3 - Require that licensing procedures include the stipulation that all rental property titleholders be registered in the Register of Deeds Office to obtain a license. 4 - Modify existing cod~s and Black series opens on TV Randy quickly swung the camera around. Camera two moved in for a 'profile shot. The second shot was going well. There were no problems with audio this time. The students were pleased. The TV studio on the MSU campus is a long way from the streets of Detroit and other cities throughout the U.S. And their own initiative had brought them here. A year ago these eight undergraduates, most of whom are nonbroadcast majors, started to train themselves in all forms of media through the Black United Front and the College of Conununication Arts. Under the direction of black students majoring in radio and television these students spent the summer learning the mechanics of television production and cooperatively they produced two pilot shows. Last Tuesday (Oct. 26) from 7 to 7: 30 p.m. their first television program, an analysis of the black drug problem, was broadcast on WMSB, Channel 10. It was the first program in aiD-week series, "Perspectives in Black," which is produced and staffed by the black students. Programs will be aired Tuesdays at 7 and repeated Saturdays at 1 p,m. Faculty~: ~;'iaff may join some student 0organizations Faculty and staff may participate in student organizations and are weloomed to join certain organizations, according to Lana Dart, assistant director of student activities. All student organizations must register each fall term under regulatio~s for student groups in the Acadenuc Luncheon set for MSU widows Mrs. Clifton R. Wharton, JI. today (Oct. 28) will honor all wives of former faculty members whose formal ties with MSU have been severed through the death of their spouses. More than 60 faculty widows from throughout Michigan are expected to luncheon and attend a 12:30 p.m. reception at Cowles House. Freedom Report. The same regulations stipulate that faculty and staff may participate in student organizations but may not hold office or vote. Student organizations range widely from professional and honorary groups (which are excepted from the voting religious rule), and officer recreational, educational, social and political interests, reform, academic international interests, veterans groups, theater, ecological groups, etc, Last year 353 groups were registered Miss Dart said. to Students (and faculty and staff) can participate in such recreational clubs as flying, cycling, golf, folklore, karate, Japanese swordsmanship and chess; or such political organizations as Zero Population Growth, Women's Liberation, Students for a Democratic Society, etc. Among the guests will be 90-year-old Mrs. Marjorie Hobbs whose late husband was a professor in MSU's engip.eering department. '. . , - Mrs. Wharton says that the response has been particularly gratifying since it was difficult to locate many persons: Several departme~ts and individuals acrosrt campus "were contacted, and Mrs. Wharton gathered additional information .iftOm.clp~:~s:~ tl}i~qIPe p,f the widows. to have required though Student organizations are no longer faculty advisers, the' honoraries, professional . groups and religiOUS groups still usually have advisers, as do some academic .', > ' interest groups. " " Miss-Dllft suggested tliiit"FaCUlty and , staff' interested in joining any student organizations either atterrd'"-a meetihg or may call her office 00 get . names 0fthe group's-officers. car', ,~ to insure required ordinance s maintenance levels and change the definition of family and number of roomers permitted. (This relates to the problem of students seeking lower rental housing, thus occupying structures defined and zoned as single - family dwellings. ) 5 - Increase complaint responsiveness through systematic annual inspection to insure that licensingprocedures are being enfOfCed. 6 - Take the initiative to establish a body representing the University and the city to coordinate University and city housirig policie~. Reconunendations to the University included: 1 - That the Board of Trustees establish channels through which it can monitor impacts of the University and its • members upon the East Lansing conmi.unity. 2 - That the University administration establish effective conununication channels for the city government. liaison with 3 - That the faculty government establish an appropriate agency, such as a standing committee, to deal with the housing issue. 4 - That faculty participate within their their conununities by offering expertise in problem solution: 5 - That the University publish a pamphlet similar to that now published on dormitories, faculty and married student housing. The pamphlet would include rights and responsibilities of students liviDg off campus. Reconunendations also encouraged students to participate within their communities, and to have A-SMSU establish a liai~on committee for conununication. The committee could not make mandatory responsibilities on rental property owners, but did ask them to consider certain responsibilities relating to problems of density, leases, ordinance enforcement, maintenance, parking, security deposits. Tenants were asked to seek .,informat,iO_ll, cooperate with licensing"inspeC1iC»1,etc., and participate ir the community. , And real estate brokers were asked to inf()rm prospective buyers of conditions and regulations under which property is to be used, to inform buyers of licensing requirements, and cooperate with the city in its goals. -BEVERLY TWITCHELL Council agentJas • • • (Concluded from page 1) The steering conunittee expressed doubt that the grievance procedures would be fully considered and approved by the EFC in the time allotted, so it is doubtful that the proposal will go to the Academic Council this week. A progress report may b~ made, however. ALSOON THE EFC agenda will be a report from Herbert Jackson, professor of religion and chairman of an ad hoc committee to study collective bargaining. Jackson and his committee have been meeting 9 to 12 hours a week since spring, and have conducted hearings, corresponded with other universities, attended ~he University of Michigan "Faqulty Power" conference and met with faculty who have chaired key committees here. Jackson told the steering conunittee that his group is almost ready to conclude the "research period" of its charge, but, he added he is "overwhelmed by the task still before us," He said he hopes to have a written report to present to the EFC at its Jan. 11, 1972 meeting. He reminded the steering committee that his group was not charged to take a position on collective bargaining. But, he said, information. available boils down to opinion, since experience with in higher education has been so scarce. The report, Jackson said, will point out key issues and concerns and the essence of pro and con judgments. "If we don't function with a report fairly quickly, it may be too late," Jackson said, referring to renewed efforts to obtain election authorization cards from the faculty. * * * A THIRD ITEM for the EFC will be a motion from the steering conunittee to affiliate with the Association of Michigan Collegiate Faculties (News - Bulletin, May 13, 1971), with a second motion to establish a committee to discuss appropriate procedures for fillancing membership in the organization (Dues for MSU would be $750, and this money . cannot come from the UniverSity's general fund.) * * * THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL will hear a ~tatus report on student impleJV.entation from .the combined forces of Glenn L. Waxler, professor of physiology and chairman of the Committee on Committees, Mark Bathurst, student member of the steering conunittee and chairman of the Student Committee on Nominations, and Louis Hekhuis, associate dean of students and implementation chairman of the coordinating committee. Two separate motions from tlte University Educational Policies Committee will be presented, both pertaining to revision of the grading system. EPC will ask the Council to eliminate the 4.5 (News - Bulletin, Oct. 21) and the .5 grades (see related story). EPC urges end to 0.5 grade recommend The Educational Policies Committee will the Academic to Council next week that the 0.5 grade be eliminated from the grading system. The recommendation will accompany a second proposal to eiliminate the 4.5 grade (News-Bulletin, Oct. 21), but the two are separate actions. Rationale for eliminating the 0.5 to W.D. Collings, grade, according professor of physiology and EPC chairman, is that the grade may work hardship on some students, and it can be misused by faculty. The problem -is that the 0.5 grade indicates partial failing; but can a student "partially fail"? And, Collings asked, does the 0.5 grade really indicate a level of achievement? EPC feels that this is not a proper way to indicate a level of achievement, he said. Elimination of the 4.5 grade was proposed for very different reasons, including its apparent inflationary effect on overall grade-point averages and the apparent detrimental effect on students applying to graduate and professional programs where some schools equate the 4.5 with the 4.0. But like the 0.5 grade, the EPC feels the 4.5 grade has been misused by faculty, primarily through indiscriminate or overuse. Page 6, MSU News-Bulletin, Oct. 28, 1971 November: Lots to do I-Broadway Theatre: "The Me Nobody Knows" 8 :15 p.m., Auditorium. 2-Lecture-C9Jl(:~rt ("A") : First Moog Quartet, 8 :15 p.m., AuditoriumS-Concert: Chamber Orchestra, 8: 15 p.m., Music Auditorium. 6-PAC Children's Theatre : "The Boy Who Cried Wolfis Dead" 20 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m. Arena Theatre. World Travel: "Africa Camera Safari" 8 p.m., Auditorium. 7-PAC Children's Theatre : 2 & 4 p.m., Arena Theatre. Concert: Richards Quintet, 8: 15 p.m., Music Auditorium.8 - Faculty recital : Violinist Walter Verdehr~: f5- p.m., Music Auditorium. 9 - Faculty recital: Pianist David Renner, 8: 15 p.m., Music Auditorium. 10-PAC: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstem are Dead" 8:15 p.m., Fairchild. II - Concert: Wind Ensemble, 8: 15 p.m., Music Auditorium. PAC: 8: 15 p.m., Fairchild 12-PAC, 8:15 p,m., Fairchild 13-PAC Children's Theatre: 10 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m., Arena Theatre. PAC,8:15 p.m., Fairchild. 14-PAC Children's Theatre, 2 and 4 p.m., Arena Theatre. PAC: 8:15 p.m., Fairchild. 15 - Benefit Concert: MSU Sumphony Orchestra, 8: 15 p.m., Fairchild. 16-Benefit Concert: MSU Symphony Orchestra, 8 : 15 p.m., Fairchild. 17-University Cinema : "The Henry Miller Odyssey" 7 :30 and 9 :30 p.m., Auditorium , 18-Lecture-Concert ("B") : Budapest Symphony Orchestra, 8: 15 p.m., Auditorium. 19-Broadway Theatre: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," 8:15 p.m., Auditorium. Opera Workshop: "Amahl and the Night Visitors" 8: 15 p.m., Music Auditorium. 20-PAC Children's Theatre: 10 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m., Arena Theatre. World Travel: "There Will Always be an England" 8 p.m., Auditorium. Opera Workshop, 8: 15 p.m., Music Auditorium. 21-PAC Children's Theatre, 2 and 4 p.m., Arena Theatre. Opera Workshop, 4 p.m., Music Auditorium. World Travel- "Afghanistan" 4 p.m., Auditorium. 22-Concert: Beaumont String Quartet, 8: 15 p.m., Music Auditorium. 23-Chamber Music: Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, 8: 15 p.m., Fairchild. 24-Lecture-Concert ("B") : Sierra Leone National Dance Troupe, 8: 15 p.m., Auditorium. 29-Lecture-Concert ("A"): Pianist Alexis Weissenberg, 8: 15 p.m., Auditorium. Faculty recital: DouglasCampbeU, French hom, 8:15 p.m., Music Auditorium. 30-Broadway Theatre: "Butterflies are Free" 8: 15 p.m., Auditorium. Concert: University Chorale, 8: 15·p.m., Music Auditorium. Foreign student enrollment shows a slight decrease Approximately 1,100 foreign students, a slight decrease from last year's figure of 1,200, are enrolled here this term, according to MSU's foreign student adviser. August Benson reports the students represent 80 countries and most of them (85 per cent) are pursuing graduate studies. that Accounting for half the decline in numbers is a smaller enrollment in the English Language Center, Benson says. Foreign students attend the center for intensive in English before attending other higher education institutions across the nation. training Benson adds that there are also fewer enrqllees from Canada, India and Turkey. Homer Higbee, assistant dean for education exchange in International Studies and Programs, explains, "The shifting enrollment patterns are whimsical and one can only offer. intelligent guesses regarding the reasons for changes." He speculates that the number of Canadian students dropped from 151 to 115 as the result of a concentrated effort on the part of the Canadian government to encourage their students to return to Canada. Higbee notes that there appears to be a growing nationalism with regards to education in Canada which could conceivably be affecting the number of Canadian students at Michigan State. Higbee also hypothesizes that the number of Indian students has decreased from 91 to 74 as the result of a lack of funds. "Indian students are usually in the sciences," he says, "and one of the factors here is the cutback in funds from the government, foundations and other organizations." The decline in Turkish students (from 65 to 45) Higbee attributes partially to the termination of formal MSU projects in Turkey which provide for the exchange of students. He explains the presence of MSU assistance projects in Thailand may also partly explain the 10 per cent increase in Thai students. Higbee states, "I personally feel MSU has reached its natural limits in terms of money and depar!mental balance in the number of foreign students it can handle. "Unless something happens in the area of support, I predict we will probably vary between 1,100 and 1,200 in years to come." -BARBARA MCINTOSH WI(AR audience exceeds 365,000 An audience study of MSU's radio WKAR reveals that the station has about 365,000 listeners on AM and FM. The survey was conducteu in November and December of 1970 by Thomas F. Baldwin, associate professor of communication and TV-radio. The daily news audience is estimated at over 91,000, the survey shows. A "soul" program of black-oriented music and information reaches an estimated 22 ,000 listeners per week. The WKAR audience may be characterized as mature (83 percent over 30 years of age), welI-educated (45 percent with college or postgraduate experience), and about evenly divided between women and men, with women having a slight edge. - Baldwin found that WKAR is best known for its discussion and inform:rtion programs. Also popular are sports, farm information, news and music concerts. News programs on WKAR were found to have a regular audience, with over 40 percent of the news listeners tuning in Art exhibit daily, and 84 percent at least two or three times a week. The news listeners again tend to be older, well-educated people with a strong interest in radio news interviews with authorities and newsmakers, the survey indicated. Actually, over half of WKAR listeners listen to news. * * * THE SURVEY FOUND the WKAR music audience to be the most varied. The music audience is generally older, the contemporary perhaps due to Tickets still available Tickets for faculty and staff are still the MSU Symphony available for Orchestra's first concert Nov. 15 and 16 at 8:15 p.m. in Fairchild Theater. Proceeds from the concert will go for the Symphony Orchestra Scholarship Fund. Tickets, at $2.50 each, are available from the Union Ticket Office or by sending name, address and check to Symphony Orchestra, Music Department, Campus. A 2 to 4 p.m. reception is scheduled Sunday (Oct. 31) for the opening of a month-long exhibit at the East Lansing City Hall sponsored by the East Lansing Fine Arts Council. The exhibit includes watercolors by Sam Knecht, an MSU graduate, plus a display of works of macrame. It can be seen weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Dec. 15. Chest report MSU's Campus Community Chest drive is at 52.4 percent of its goal, according to reports made this week. Pledges totaling $105,891.89 have been received after about thre.e. weeks of the campaign. MSU's goal is $202,000. Spartan Saga goes on sale "SPARTAN SAGA," a comprehensive history of Michigan State athletics, is off the press and ready for sale. The book is coauthored by Lyman Frimodig, retired business manager of athletics and MSU's all-time top athletic letterwinner with la, and Sports Information Director Fred Stabley. FA I-o,neet The l\,fSU Faculty Asscciates Task Force will hold an open meeting 4 p.m. Wednesci"y, Nov. 3, in the Union Green its' Ilnionization Room campaign. launch to "SPARTAN SAGE" contains nearly 150 pictures, separate chapters on every sport and a detailed chronology in tis 264 pages. But it also is an encycolpedia, with such features as all-time event scores in every sport, all-time letterwinners, All-Americans, Olympic participants, NCAA, NAAU, Big Ten, 1C4A and other champions and statistical leaders. Proceeds go to' the Ralph H. Young Scholarship Fund which extends financial a.\d to atheltes. The book may be purch